All education establishments and services must take positive steps to help children protect themselves by ensuring that programmes of health and personal safety are central to the curriculum. All education establishments should provide curriculum that ensures that children have a clear understanding of the difference between appropriate and inappropriate behaviour on the part of another person, no matter who.
Schools, establishments and services must create and maintain a positive ethos and climate which actively promotes child welfare and a safe environment by:
Should any member of staff have concerns regarding the welfare or safety of any child, they must report these concerns to the Head of Establishment or the person deputising for the Head. After judging that there may be grounds for concern regarding the welfare and safety of any pupil, must then immediately advise the duty Senior Social Worker at the local Social Work Services Area Office of the circumstances.
As well as the above, staff also have a responsibility to implement The Scottish Executive document Safe and Well. This document offers guidance in relation to good practice; it also includes The Children’s Charter and National Framework Standards for protecting children and young people. An abbreviated version of Safe and Well can be found on the nursery notice board.
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Govan Family Learning Centrec/o Pirie Park Primary337 Langlands RoadGlasgowG51 4AW Phone: 0141 445 1817Fax: 0141 445 5018E-mail: headteacher@govan-nursery.glasgow.sch.uk